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*   Justice it was an article of faith that solving the nation's drug problem
*   could not be accomplished by prosecution and jail sentences alone. These
*   career people feel the answer is self-evident: Education, rehabilitation
*   and improving the grim lot of most of those prone to drug addiction ought
*   to become national priorities.
*   
*   Said David Margolis, who had supervised the Criminal Division's anti-
*   narcotics efforts in the early 1990s: "Anyone who thinks that drug
*   enforcement is primarily a law enforcement issue, they're smoking wacky
*   tabacky."

Tell all the damn manipulative politicians.


Jail's not even cost effective.

*   RAND Study Finds Mandatory Minimums Cost-Ineffective
*   ----------------------------------------------------
*    
*   Excerpt from RAND Press Release:
*    
*   Washington, DC, May 12, 1997 -- If cutting drug consumption and
*   drug-related crime are the nation's prime drug control
*   objectives, then the mandatory minimum drug sentencing laws
*   in force at the federal level and in most states are not the
*   way to get there.
*    
*   This is the key finding of "Mandatory Minimum Drug
*   Sentences: Throwing Away the Key or the Taxpayer's Money?",
*   a new RAND study that provides the first quantitative
*   analysis of how successful these measures are in achieving
*   what Director Barry McCaffrey of the Office of National Drug
*   Control Policy has called "our central purpose and mission -
*   - reducing illicit drug use and its consequences."

In Florida, they charged a mother with delivering cocaine to her baby.
A problem with this is the mother-addict repeatedly applied for rehab
programs, but there were no available slots. Not enough funding.


    Law enforcement drug hysteria. Decades of Drug War.


Those rumor-level stories about our government encouraging
drugs to reach the inner cities were weird.

Remember, we've been having a Dr